6 Best crime books like Any Second by Kevin Emerson

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Any Second

By: Kevin Emerson

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Five years after being kidnapped, Elian's captor sends him into the mall--with a bomb strapped to h…

If you liked the crime plot in Any Second by Kevin Emerson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Seconds Away (Mickey Bolitar, #2)

By: Harlan Coben

4.05

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

This action-packed second book in international bestseller Harlan Coben’s Mickey Bolitar young adul… read more

Similar categories in Harlan Coben's Seconds Away (Mickey Bolitar, #2) book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History."

-Harlan Coben, Seconds Away (Mickey Bolitar, #2)

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2. Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die, #1)

By: Katie Alender

4.01

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her pare… read more

Similar categories in Katie Alender's Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die, #1) book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
"I'm a giant pimple on the face of humanity."

-Katie Alender, Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die, #1)

"preps are like cheerleaders, except less jumpy"

-Katie Alender, Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die, #1)

"How could something that made a person feel so safe be so BAD?"

-Katie Alender, Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die, #1)

"How could something taht made a person feel so safe be so BAD?"

-Katie Alender, Bad Girls Don't Die (Bad Girls Don't Die, #1)

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3. Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.81

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassie Hobbes has been working with the FBI since she was a teenager. Now twenty-three years old, s… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5) book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Even when wounds healed, the scars remained. - Cassie"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

"Celine smiles sweetly. “Why would I be interested in boys"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

"Behavior. Personality. Enviroment. The BPEs are reliable when nothing an no one else is. They are constant."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

"As much as i knew about the ins and outs of the human mind, i couldn’t help wanting my own to work differently."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

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4. Never Always Sometimes

By: Adi Alsaid

3.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Never date your best friend. Always be original. Sometimes rules are meant to be broken. B… read more

Similar categories in Adi Alsaid's Never Always Sometimes book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Love was lazy as hell."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

"To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

"No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

"Love traveled, it ran, it covered ground, eager to see more, do more. It was two people keeping pace with each other."

-Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

5. Found (Mickey Bolitar, #3)

By: Harlan Coben

5.00

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

Murder. Mystery. High School. A new Mickey Bolitar novel following on from Shelterand Seconds Away.… read more

Similar categories in Harlan Coben's Found (Mickey Bolitar, #3) book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. Blood Will Tell (Point Last Seen, #2)

By: April Henry

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What happens when someone who's only ever wanted to be a hero becomes a suspect? When a woman's bod… read more

Similar categories in April Henry's Blood Will Tell (Point Last Seen, #2) book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

7. Stranger Than Fanfiction

By: Chris Colfer

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cash Carter is the young, world famous lead actor of the hit television Wiz Kids. When four fans jo… read more

Similar categories in Chris Colfer's Stranger Than Fanfiction book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

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8. Time Bomb

By: Joelle Charbonneau

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

A congressman's daughter who has to be perfect. A star quarterback with a secret. A guy who's tired… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Charbonneau's Time Bomb book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • teen
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Once you were a winner, you had to stay the winner they expected you to be."

-Joelle Charbonneau, Time Bomb

"...fighting to live is hard. It’s supposed to be. Giving up is the easy part."

-Joelle Charbonneau, Time Bomb

"To get what you wanted in life, you must inspire trust - even if you intended to break it."

-Joelle Charbonneau, Time Bomb

"Was he scared? Hell, yeah. But sometimes the only way to change something was to break it first."

-Joelle Charbonneau, Time Bomb

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9. The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.67

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Amontillado, Ohio, where your last name is worth more than money, and secrets can be kep… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1) book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"...If I can't feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn't hurt a bit. And they are long overdue."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

"I’ve borne it all with patience, the years of small cuts that heal over, my heart a pulpy mass of scars. But it was still beating, at least I could say that, right up until she took Goldie from me. N…"

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

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10. Two Truths and a Lie

By: April Henry

3.36

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

A group of teens are trapped in an old motel with a murderer in this chilling YA mystery by New Yor… read more

Similar categories in April Henry's Two Truths and a Lie book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I'm not just ignoring you, I'm waiting to see if you'll put in the effort to talk to me."

-April Henry, Two Truths and a Lie

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11. We Are Not Free

By: Traci Chee

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the… read more

Similar categories in Traci Chee's We Are Not Free book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"...I'm not guilty of anything but being born with this face."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"Tyranny is locking us up. Tyranny is taking our freedom. Tyranny is right here. Tyranny is American."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"If someone always said, You have to do this for me before I do this for you, then nothing would ever get done"

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

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12. Snowglobe

By: Soyoung Park

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can es… read more

Similar categories in Soyoung Park's Snowglobe book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
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13. Girl Forgotten

By: April Henry

3.67

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Piper Gray starts a true-crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old cold case.  Seventeen … read more

Similar categories in April Henry's Girl Forgotten book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
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14. Breathe and Count Back from Ten

By: Natalia Sylvester

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplas… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Sylvester's Breathe and Count Back from Ten book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"You are so a physical person...You're taking up space. You're made of all this matter. What more proof do you need than that?"

-Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

"Like maybe the "magic" isn't just about believing in mermaids; it's about believing peope like me don't exist, Like maybe admitting I've needed crutched dispels the myths we want to believe about peo…"

-Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten

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15. You, Me, and Our Heartstrings

By: Melissa See

3.63

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Daisy and Noah have the same plan: use the holiday concert to land a Julliard audition. But when th… read more

Similar categories in Melissa See's You, Me, and Our Heartstrings book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
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16. The Last She (The Last She series, #1)

By: H.J. Nelson

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ara . . . I made a mistake, we all did . . . go back to the beginning . . . it’s not too late. A… read more

Similar categories in H.J. Nelson's The Last She (The Last She series, #1) book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
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17. Give Me a Sign

By: Anna Sortino

4.11

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when… read more

Similar categories in Anna Sortino's Give Me a Sign book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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18. Red

By: Annie Cardi

4.35

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Moving to Hawthorne was something Tess and her mom never anticipated, but after Tess’s mom loses he… read more

Similar categories in Annie Cardi's Red book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. This Is My Brain in Love

By: I.W. Gregorio

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Jocelyn Wu has just three wishes for her junior year: To make it through without dying of boredom, … read more

Similar categories in I.W. Gregorio's This Is My Brain in Love book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Early Departures

By: Justin A. Reynolds

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Justin A. Reynolds, author of Opposite of Always, delivers another smart, funny, and powerful stand… read more

Similar categories in Justin A. Reynolds's Early Departures book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"The truth is you can never truly make amends for the hurt you cause; you apologize, you try to atone, at best the scars lighten but they don't disappear. You live with the pain that you pained someon…"

-Justin A. Reynolds, Early Departures

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21. Any Second

By: Kevin Emerson

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Five years after being kidnapped, Elian's captor sends him into the mall--with a bomb strapped to h… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Emerson's Any Second book and Kevin Emerson's Any Second

  • teen
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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Harlan Coben

4.05

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Katie Alender

4.01

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Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.81

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Never Always Sometimes

Adi Alsaid

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Sheryl Scarborough

4.03

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Kevin O'Brien

4.03

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Sarah K. Stephens

3.62

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J.P. Pomare

3.63

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